The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-08

Louis % Chicago Railroad Company Inc capltai
stock is to be $l4, 0G0, 000
Local and st to Notes.
J. r. Dill, ex-train dispatcher of the C., l., St
l.. e. c.. has been appointed chief train dis
patcher of the Cincinnati, New Orleans &
Texas road.
Capt James Phillips. an old j., NJ. & !. pas
senger conductor, mas been appointed general
superintendent of the Gulf, Colorado q Santa
Fe road, with headquarters at Galveston Tex
Commencing with next week. all the city freight
depots will be closed daily st o'clock p NJ. and
on Saturday at P. NJ The uptown freight and
line Offices will hereafter be closed on Saturday
at p NJ.
The repairs to the rolling mill have been COM
peted, and the mill yesterday resumed turning
out steel rails. By the break down the company
has got large stock of inGots ahead, and will
now push matters.
Export shippers on the vandalia line are much
elated over the c., H. & ID. deal, they feeling
that the fast-freight lines operating over the
Baltimore 81 Ohio will give them advantages
they have not before been favored with.
Henry Fink vice-president of the Memphis e.
Charleston, has appointed E. B. Thomas general
manager of that road. It has been incorporated
into the Richmond 81 Danville system. Peyton
Randolph will be assistant general manager.
The Decline people are again considering the
building of the "Hillsboro cutoff" by which
they will shorten their road between Indianapo-
lis and ST. Louis eleven miles. This cutoff runs
across lots SO 20 speak, from Hillsboro to Staun-
ton, Ill
o. B. Grant ex-chief clerk of E. W. McKenna,
and now assistant engineer of maintenance of
way on the j.. NJ. 81 l., is soon TO retire from
that position to accept position of more i'm
portance on the G.. NJ. & St p, under Mr. Nc
Kenna
Chief Engineer Morris, of the c.. l., st. L. &
c.. states that the improvements contemplated
to their property in a physical way, outside OF
the tunnel cutoff this season. will cost 5000 600.
This includes new bridges, new railway stations.
new steel, etc.
70 he I'm tha Gar
coupler Company has been organized to take
hold of car coupler, the invention of John
Rdenour. of Mt Vernon. Ind Railroad men
who have seen it's operations are highly pleased
with its performance.
Dealers in Southern pine at this point yester-
day were notified that the Southern roads would
on the 10th of this month advance rates from
Southern shipping points to points on the Ohio
river cents per 100 pounds. which makes a
difference in rates of 90 cents per 1000 feet
The grading of the extension of the c., l., St. L.
q c. from Lawrenceburg to Aurora and Rising
Sun is completed, and this week the laying of
cross ties and the track will commence. This
extension is known as the Southern Ohio rail-
road. and the company has elected Col Horace
Scott its president
A road is now projected to be known the
Corinth Tennessee. extending twenty miles
from Corinth, Miss, to Plttsburg Landing,
Tenn. The president and attorney of the road
are to be in Evansville the 18th and will visit
other points on the river to talk over the enter
prise and endeavor to secure financial aid
The lnterstate-coEimerce Commissioners have
fixed the hearing Of the boycott suit for June
To- and probably two weeks will elapse before
this question is judicially determined. In the
meantime the boycott will continue. 1t has
proved two-edged sword, injuring both the
lines that withdrew the tickets of their Western
connections from sale and these Western lines
also, aud the settlement of the question and full
restoration OF the sale of tickets will give very
general satisfaction.
The fact that it takes more than the mere
nouncement that the payment OF commissions
has been stopped to abolish the practice has
been demonstrated by the experience of the past
two months. There is ample evidence that the
ticket agents at this point and other railroad
centers are accepting commissions as hereto
fore wherever road chooses to offer them. It
is understood that the general passenger agents
of some of the roads which have been the loud
est in denouncing the practice OF paying COM
missions wink at their local ticket rs ants re-
ceiving commissions, and it is for their interest
so to do until the adjustment of commissions
becomes general
James McCrea, general manager. John T.
Miller and j. j. Turner. general superin tendents
of the Pennsylvania lines, were in the city for a
few hours yesterday. During their stay Mr..
McCrea closeted most of the time with
this end OF the road. Before leaving, Mr.. Nc
Crea called on c. E. Henderson, general man
ager of the l. , b. & w. and this enough to
set speculation in motion, and soon the rumor
was out that the Pennsylvania Company were
arranging to run their trains to St Louis over
the l., B. & w. and Wabash via Danvile.
While such movement is possible, it is hardly
probable. Mr.. Henderson says Mr.. McCrea
called upon him 20 confer about some proposed
changes in the system OF tracks by which the
passenger trains will run into the new Union
railway station the west end.